94 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Cxsalpinia 



&L Hist. a. 41. Christa pavonis. , .semine cinereo Breyn. Prodr. 

 Hi. app. 33, t. 28. Globuli majores Bumph. Amboin. v. 92, t. 49, 

 /. 1. Guilandina aculeata &c. L. Fl. Zeyl. n. 156 & in Herb. 

 Hermann H. 17 & Hi. 35. G. spinosa &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 228. 

 G. Bonduc L. Sp. PI. 381 (1753) (in part); Mac/. Jam. i. 326 

 (in part) (non L. ed. 2). G. Bonducella L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 545 

 (1762) & Mant. 378 ; Griseh. FL Br. W. Ind. 204. (Fig. 32.) 



Grey Nickar, Bonduc. 



Grows with the former species, Sloane Herb. vi. 19 ! Brotvne 1 Wright ! 

 Lane I Priestmans Biver, Deans ! Lucea ; Blue Mts. ; Hitchcock ; Luana 

 Point, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9824. — Tropical and subtropical regions. 



Shrub climbing by help of prickles ; stem diffuse, puberulous-downy, 

 more or less beset with straight unequal prickles. Leaves very large, 

 3-G dm. 1. ; rhachis with recurved prickles ; pinnae in 6-8 (5-9) pairs, 

 10-15 cm. 1. ; leaflets in 7 (5) pairs, with 2 hooked prickles at the base of 

 each pair, oblong-ovate, elliptical, or oblong-elliptical, sometimes very 

 shortly or obtusely acuminate, mucronate, base rounded, puberulous on 

 midrib on both sides and on margin, and sometimes all over beneath, 

 membranous or papery, 2-4 (5) cm. 1, Racemes long-stalked, dense at apex 

 in bud, somewhat lax lower, with numerous yellow flowers, l-l'6(-3) 

 dm. 1. ; rhachis sometimes prickly ; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 6-12 mm. 1. Calyx about 8 mm. 1., tomentose. Petals oblong, the upper 

 one broader above and shorter, half as long again as the sepals. Stame^is 

 shorter than the petals. Ovary often abortive, so that many flowers are 

 male. Pod bright orange-brown, 6-7 cm. 1., 3-5 cm. br. Seeds 2 or 1 in 

 the pod, subglobose, without endosperm. 



" Bonduc seeds are regarded in India as tonic and antiperiodic. . . . 

 They have been employed with success in intermittent fevers, especially in 

 those of the natives of India ; and also generally in debility and other 

 cases where tonics are necessary. The powdered kernels are either given 

 alone, or combined with chiretta and other Indian tonics, or mixed with 

 powdered black pepper. . . . Dr. Kirkpatrick and other practitioners 

 regard Bonduc root, especially its bark, as more valuable than the seed, in 

 the treatment of intermittents, and for use generally as a tonic. Besides 

 the use of Bonduc seeds in medicine, they are commonly, from their hard 

 and polished nature, strung into necklaces, rosaries, bracelets, &c." — 

 Bentley & Trimen, "Medicinal Plants." 



" These nuts are often cast ashore by the sea on the north-west coasts 

 of Ireland and Scotland, and are called Molucca Beans by the inhabitants 

 of the latter." — Sloane (specimens of these are in his fruit collection). 



A specimen in Herb. Linn, of a leaf of this species from Browne, named 

 " Zantoxylon clava Herculis " in Solander's hand, is correctly named on 

 the sheet by J. E. Smith. 



§ Pods without prickles. 



[C. sepiaria 2?oa;6. Hort. Beng. 32 (1814); prickly scrambling 

 climber; pinnae in 6-10 pairs; leaflets in 8-12 pairs. — Griseh. 

 op. cit. 205 ; Bak. torn. cit. 256 ; Urb. Symh. Ant. ii. 277 & iv. 279. 



Wait-a-bit. 



Cinchona, Glutei Eggers; near Gordon Town, Ball\ Porus, Lloyd; 

 Blue Mts., Port Antonio, Hitchcock. — Naturalized also in Cuba, Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Barbados, 

 Grenada, Brazil, Africa. Native of India and eastern Asia. 



Shrub, climbing high amongst shrubs and trees by means of its prickles 



